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As an amateur I do not know the correct initial (or empirical) treatment for diphteria. Could anyone enlighten? JFW | T@lk 12:33, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
It is virtually non-existent in Western countries as a result of vaccination. In Eastern Europe it is more common at the moment, and affects the poorer classes. JFW | T@lk 21:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
the treatment of case or carriers:
if diphtheria is strongly suspected clinically ; antitoxins should given immediately after bacteriologic specimen without waiting the results
I removed the pronunciation from the article because it looked to me like an attempt at prescriptivism against the [pθ] pronunciation. I considered putting in both variants, but since there's dialectal (and theoretical) variation as to how to transcribe the second vowel, and since it's really not an irregular word that you'd need to be told the pronunciation for anyway, I decided it's better just to leave it out entirely. -- Ptcamn 11:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Removed from Treatment section:
You shouldn't take any medications containing lysoliam in them if you have diptheria.
Reference? What is "lysoliam" referring to? Tearlach 09:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the nature of the "pseudomembrane?" Is it a thick film of bacterial cells, or something secreted by the bacteria? Or is it some sort of defense mechanism created by the body? Why does it form a film? I would be interested if some kind medical person could add these details. -- 125.236.160.136 ( talk) 08:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
I just edited the history section. I'm surprised there was no mention of the vaccine, so I added that and a chart demonstrating the death rates recorded in the United States. I know it's messy, my apologies for being footnote impaired, hopefully someone who understood the wikipedia footnoting page will be along. Uncleosbert ( talk) 20:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Seems like this article could link to "Jim"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_horse_named_Jim
68.239.133.217 ( talk) 02:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
The article currently asserts
which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. An earlier version made more sense, but I couldn't quite follow where in the editing history this got changed or why; there may have been some good-faith change that was intended but didn't quite get implemented right. Anyone who can figure out what this is supposed to say, please fix it. -- Trovatore ( talk) 12:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
The phrase "is given to all school children" should be changed to "is reccomended for all school aged children" since it is a CDC reccomendation, but not something that ALL school children do. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.144.48 ( talk) 17:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I belive that correct code is A36, not A30? Vedran12 ( talk) 21:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
The Soviet Union did not break up in the 1980s. Please fix the data and cause of breakout of ditheria at the time in USSR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.62.210.75 ( talk) 16:01, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Article contains no information on CUTANEOUS diphtheria, an important form of infection independent from respiratory cases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.230.28.62 ( talk) 03:39, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
DPT vaccine by no means can't prevent disease, because it contains toxoid, but not bacterium.I don't understand how this myth is spread. We should remove the link between vaccination rates and explosion of diphtheria cases from article. 84.228.9.40 ( talk) 06:44, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
This article is loaded with undefined jargon, making it inaccessible to casual readers, the vast majority of people who come here for information. I my opinion, this is the biggest failing of Wikipedia's technical, scientific, and medical articles. For instance, take the Mechanism section - it's virtually indecipherable. Authors: define as you go along! Provide the definition of a term in plain English the first time it appears and put the technical term in parenthesis or vice versa. Either way, a person can immediately understand the gist and keep reading.
Although links are very valuable by underscoring the multidimensional nature of Wikipedia and allowing readers to pursue more information if they choose, they are frequently a bane. A reader is forced into clicking a link in order to try to understand a term, then must click a link in the 2nd article to understand a term, and is soon ping-ponging all over Wikipedia until they quit in frustration or forget why they came here in the first place! That is a person who will bad-mouth WP to others as a resource (with cause!) and will never donate money for its upkeep.
In my strong opinion, the goal should be to keep the reader on the page, allowing them to jump only if they want to do so.
Back to the Mechanism section: what in the world is a "regulation subunit"? It remains completely undefined. There's not even a WP link because there's no WP article or definition for this obscure term. I tried a browser search for it and looked at three pages of results. It's used in them all, but likewise remains undefined. This page has the unsurprising glossary definition of "subunit", but nothing about how the "regulation" modifier alters the meaning - http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=subunit This is one small example of the failure of WP technical articles to its core audience.
Sad, but true. Thank you, Wordreader ( talk) 16:27, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
There are remarkable similarities in this article to "Diphtheria" - http://www.austincc.edu/microbio/2321/diph.html . Did one come first and inspire or inform the other or is this a coincidence? Thank you, Wordreader ( talk) 16:37, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
...and I hope someone familiar with the development of the article (or the topic) can fix it easily. In the third paragraph it says:
"These antibiotics may also be used for prevention in those who have been exposed diphtheria antitoxin." Then it rambles off into the next sentence,
"A surgical procedure known as a tracheostomy is sometimes needed to open the airway in severe cases." Which doesn't seem to mater much in a paragraph about prevention and treatment. I'm sure IVs are used, too, but there is no need to mention them, either, at this point. Huw Powell ( talk) 02:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
It could be useful to add more information on the transmission of Diphtheria. Knowing all the possible ways that the disease can be contracted could help prevent transimission. Joeshmo265 ( talk) 09:02, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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In early July 2022, two cases were reported in the North Eastern corner of New South Wales. This is an area with a heavy population of anti-vaccine dogma, and has the lowest rate of vaccinations for all vaccinable diseases in all of Australia. 2001:8003:E48C:E601:307E:17BD:D501:AF01 ( talk) 07:42, 3 July 2022 (UTC)